How to make cake pops at home

MANILA - Delicious and easy to make, cake pops are a great gift idea not only for Christmas but for any occasion.

Chef Jackie Laudico said cake pops can serve as last-minute gifts for the holiday season and is a good way to repurpose leftover cake from noche buena.

The process of making cake pops is simple: break the cake into crumbles, mold them into balls, put them in sticks, and dip them in melted chocolate and sprinkles.

"'Di ba meron tayo 'yung mga sobrang cake? You can make it into cake pops," Laudico said on Friday's episode of "Kris TV."

The chef then demonstrated how she makes cake pops. Using leftover butterscotch cupcakes, Laudico crumbles them into fine crumbs and forms them into small balls.

Before attaching the lollipop sticks, she first dips them in chocolate to make sure that the cake pops would stick.

"What I've learned is para hindi siya agad natatanggal [sa stick], you dip it in chocolate para mas nakakapit," she said.

After this, dip the cake pops in frosting, in pure melted chocolate or in ganache, which includes cream and chocolate.

The trick, said Laudico, is to "make the chocolate pull itself" by moving the stick up and down for a nice, thin chocolate coating.

Then, add sprinkles to add color to the cake pops. Place them in the chiller to set.

Laudico said a cake pop can be made for as low as P10.

"Nagmamahal lang siya 'pag 'yung mga imported na chocolate 'yung gamitin mo," she said.

source: www.abs-cbnnews.com

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